I know that there has been lots and lots of negative comments for Vista. I have
to say that I have used Vista Ultimate lately and have found it to be a
pleasure. I recently dl'd the Windows 7 trial and found that it works also.
Now what I am running it on may be the difference, its a Phenon
I think that alot of MS problem with Vista stems from when it came out there
were many computer users that had less that 2 gig of RAM installed in them
that were trying to use Vista.
From what I have noticed with 2-4 gigs of ram on a decent cpu and video card
it seems to run fine. Though I
I use Vista on a new computer with 2 gb or RAM. It does seem to be very RAM
hungry, and also takes a fair bit of space on the HD. Having said that,
almost all my previous computers were Macs, so I'm newish to PCs. Seems to
work ok, other than is seems rather inefficient in how works.
A friend
E M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whether Vista is as bad as most say or not, I don't know, I'm not a
techie guy. I know it's been given the death kiss by the public, so
whether it's wise to keep trying to market something that most think
is crap, might be good money after bad.
The last time I
Gary, this is Kaleb we're listening here. I'd guess he has about 5%
reason between his ears...
Luther
Gary Hurst wrote:
haven't we already concluded that all anyone knows about vista is that it is
bad for you and you should give it up?
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin
i understand that it is sometimes just practical to use the microsoft OS. i
have some vendors who have systems of communicating with their inventories
that simply will not work on anything other than the MS OS. if i want to
know if there is a certain bilstein shock in a warehouse near you and
I would rather use XP, but this new computer I have had for a while came
with Vista, and its very difficult to go back to xp on it.
Gary Hurst wrote:
i understand that it is sometimes just practical to use the microsoft OS. i
have some vendors who have systems of communicating with their
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I would rather use XP, but this new computer I have had for a while came
with Vista, and its very difficult to go back to xp on it.
Gary Hurst wrote:
i understand that it is sometimes just practical to use the microsoft OS.
i
have
down grade. However you have to already have XP install disks.
Trampas
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I would
could
down grade. However you have to already have XP install disks.
Trampas
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I would
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Reboot and insert XP install disk and follow all prompts.
Luther
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
I would rather use XP, but this new computer I have had for a while
came with Vista, and its very difficult to go back to xp on it.
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:42:29 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Actually formatting it as the default (ext2 or ext3) works very well. Then
XP says, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS! and you can have XP format it NTFS,
which is much
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know that the
partition was there?
Luther
Craig McCluskey wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:42:29 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Actually formatting it as
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:08:16 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know that the
partition was there?
Yeah, the partition table is the standard sort, so XP knows a partition is
there, but the partition type number is something it
It seems than at Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:08:16 -0600, Luther wrote:
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know
that the partition was there?
The partition and the file system are two totally separate
things.
XP by default will not know what to do with the file system. But
it
i'm a mandriva man myself, but there are lots of different flavors you can
use.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD. Format the hard drive as FAT32. Reboot and
insert XP install disk and follow all prompts.
Luther
Kaleb C. Striplin
Anybody know anything about the Enterprise version? Looks like it has
multiple activations, but wondered if anybody has used it, what features
it has etc.
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haven't we already concluded that all anyone knows about vista is that it is
bad for you and you should give it up?
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Anybody know anything about the Enterprise version? Looks like it has
multiple activations, but
The Volume License version, and a volume license key allow you to use
the install disk on multiple computers and frees you from the 5
hardware changes and you are out that is so loved. You can get the
VLK by following the instructions on how to get your keys for your
subscription. You have
Well I have the home version on this computer now, but I really want the
features of ultimate or perhaps this enterprise. Apparantly my
subcrption does not allow me to download the VL versions of ultimate
etc, but I can download the enterprise version, and its key says its MAK
(multiple
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/enterprise/features/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I have the home version on this computer now,
I've installed McAfee on Vista Business with no issues. Yes - you
should be logged in with an account that has administrative rights.
You'll still have to click allow.
On 3/24/07, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We installed Vista Home Premium on one of our home computers, and it
won't
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I've installed McAfee
use an Antivirus
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Yes. Send me your address off-list and I will send you a Linux CD.
D.
On 3/24/07, B Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any and all,
We installed Vista Home Premium on one of our home computers, and it
won't let us install security software...it just erases
it...suggestions? Do we need to be
We installed Vista Home Premium on one of our home computers, and it
won't let us install security software...it just erases
it...suggestions?
Did you tell the annoying guy in the glasses Allow?
-- Jim
Surely Microsoft wouldn't hamper and delete competitor products,
certainly not ones they want to crush and destroy so they can take over
those $100 a year update fees? No, I mean they were convicted once
already by the USA Govt for such nonsense... Surely not again.
I guess you could start
that's some pretty sound advice!
On 3/24/07, Redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sell the winbox and get a mac. Seems there are a number of people
getting rid of Vista because it is screwing up their machines. At
least in Seattle.
I just sold my B/W G3 to a fellow at M$. Said he wanted a
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